Shovel, spade, and like implement.



PHQJIAS NORJRIS AND EDWAR JcIVIRSHALL, 0F GADSDEN, ALABAMA, ASSIGNORS T0 Sp'U'iU-HERN SHOVEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF GADSDEN,'ALABA1\TA, A COR- FORATION F ALABAMA, v

sHovEL, simian, am) LIKE IMPLEMENT.

933,333. Speciicvat/i'on of Letters Patent. A Patented Sept. 7, 1909.

Application led February 3, 1909. Serial No. 475,819.

'To alt/whom it may concern:

time. Also it`will be observed that by pro'- break or bend-during use. lt is to this class Be it known that We, THOMAS Nomus and of implements that the present invention re- 55 EDWARD J. MARSHALL, citizens of the United lates, one form of implement being shown y States, residing at Gadsden, in the county of in the accompanying drawing in which l in Etowah and State of Alabama, have inventdicates the body or a shovel and 2 a hard ed certain new and useful Improvements in face plate of some good quality of steel. Shovels, Spades,`and Like implements, of The body 1 is provided with a bifurcated 60 which the following isa speccation. projection or handle 3 opll any desired kind This invention relates to improvements in to which a wooden handle l of any desired shovels, spades and the like, and the process hind is secured. The handles tl and l may of making' the same, and has for an object be varied as occasion may require, and may the production of an improved shovel, spade, be made of any desired material. lhe body 65 or the like having a facing of. hard metal se l of the shovell is made from iron or softcured to a backing of comparatively soft steel and the face plate 2 is constructed of metal for continuously giving a substantially some good quality of steel, as for instance sharp edge at all times. high carbon steel that will take a good tem- A further object in view is theprovision per. 'lhe body lof the shovel is pressed out 70 of a shovel formed with a soft body and a into the desired shape, and during the prochard edge that is Welded thereto for formess of pressing the face plate 2 is placed on 2o ing a substantially integral shovel, but at the shovel and pressed at the same time so the same time presenting` a soft body and a as to be formed substantially integral with vhard face that presents a thin hard wearing the body l and yet retain its quality of high 75 Aedge at all times. v grade steel. After the shovel has been A still further object in view is the process formed the face plate 2 may be tempered to of taking a blank of soft iron and a blank. the proper degree but the remaining porof high` grade carbon steel and pressing the tion of the shovel only slightly tempered same together While heated for forming an or left entirely soft so as to present a shovel 80 integral shovel having a face of high grade having a hard face plate that extends to the steel that will take a hard temper and a comedge, and a comparatively soft shovel that paratively soft body with a comparatively has the .back thereof extended beneath the small amount of temper. face plate 2 for supporting and holding the With these and other objects in view the same in position. In use the. shovel con- 85 invention comprises certain novel'construc structed in this manner will wear the soft tions, combinations and arrangement of parts material away 4and leave 'the edge of the as will be hereinafter `more fully described hardened face2 to project a short distance and claimed. outward, and thus a con'iparatively sharp In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 edge is maintained at all times and one 90 is a front View of a shovel embodying the that will wear much longer than the soft features of the invention. Fig. 2 is a rear body 'portion of the shovel. By thus pro- 40 view of the structure shown in Fig.- 1.A Fig. riding a hardened face plate the shovel body 3 is a section approximately on line 3 3 of may be made much thinnerA and yet the Fig. l. .Fig 4 is a plan View ofa plurality shovel wear a comparatively long time, as 95 of blocks arranged to show the steps of'the the hardness of th'e plate 2 will prevent process for forming the -shovel shown: in rapid wearing of the edge which is most sus- Fig. 1." 1 ceptible to wear. This reducing of the In the construction of shovels, spades and thickness ofthe body is of great 'advantage the like it is very desirable to have a shovel in reducing the costA of production and that will retain its edge and yet not crumble weight of the shovel and at the same time or break or crack during use or during presents equal advantage to the ordinary.

50 hardening of the same. .Various means shovel with the addition of the extra length have been provided in the attempt to conof life of the shovel and the presenting'of A struct a shovel that Will retain a substana sharp^cutting edge a substantially long tially sharp edge ,at all times, and yet not .'vid'ing a face plate 2 that' extends only approximately a half distance of the shovel and is very thin the shovel will not easily `break as the same is not formed' of hard so that by this combination the hard steel face plate lengthens the life of the shovel and presents a thin edge and the soft 'back prevents any cracking or breaking of the face plate. e

In the construction of shovels a block of iron 6r soft steel is taken and formed into a blank shovel 5 and a block of high grade steel G is pressed out into a comparatively thin piece approximately the width ol the blank shovel 5 and approximately half the height thereof. AThe blank shovel 5 and the pressed piece of steel G are then placed in cont-act and after being heated are pressed while hot into a complete shovel as shown in Figs. l to 3 inclusive. After having been completely formed the face plate 2 is tempered to the proper degree of hardness. shovel in which the continuity of the bottom thereof is not interrupted and is formed continuous though of two grades ofnietal, one of which is adapted to take a high temper and the other to remain comparatively soft.

This forms a Vhat we claim is: 1. In a shovel, a body portion of comparatively soft material having approximately its lower half countersunk below the surface of its upper half, and a hardened steel plate secured within the countersunk portion of the lower half, the said hardened plate formsv 'comparatively soft material. with a raised upper surface and a lower end surface, a thin plate of tempered steel pressed on the lower end surface, the surface ot the said thin plate being substantially flush with the said raised uppzer surface,

In testimony whereof we allix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS NORRIS. EDIVA RD J. MA RS l l ALI i.

lVitnesses O. It. Hoon, Isaac Tlaas. 

